thanks for posting that link.

yeah, so what's this over? one guy submits a silly pull request to change the word "him" to "them", and an argument ensues about the correct wording, and then morphs into a discussion about discrimination of women in tech. 228 comments ensue. the pull requests gets closed when someone (correctly) makes the observation that is has gotten hopelessly off topic and is a complete waste of time.

the guy that closed it was correct.

you argue about the wording comments.
we code.
PMF.
http://programming-motherfucke...

fast matters to those of us that have busy lives. now, if you are a hipsters with a trust fund, i'm sure you have all the time in the world to wait for your gourmet mango chutney encrusted quinoa patty.

i know you wouldn't want to pass over the opportunity to talk down to someone and try to make them sound stupid, but you know he said "Under ideal conditions" right?

it depends.

for a company that's the primary contributor, the benefits of accepting external contributions doesn't balance out the gain. in fact there's significant overhead. of course there's a breaking even point, but in my experience it's way below 50-50. companies get a net gain when they are very minor contributors, and not so much after that.

that's not to say there aren't ancillary benefits. community good will, joint effort between companies, and, in the case of Google Android, a concession to business partners (we'll buy into Android, as long as we can part ways w/ Google and keep Android).

i don't have data for the Node.js Joyent relationship, but from reading this blog,
https://www.joyent.com/blog/br...

it sounds like Joyent basically ran the place.

if by "we" you mean life, it's been much more than a few million years. if you meant homo sapiens, it's been much less than that. what arbitrary point in evolution are you picking?

it is *not* most likely everywhere. the fact that your theory is not provably false does make it likely.

talk about too lazy. did you even look at TFA?

"To date, the district has spent $70 million on the project, purchasing a total of 90,713 devices."

that works out to $771.66 / device, which is pretty good considering it includes the network infrastructure, device administration, and software costs.

and let me guess, you are one of those people, smarter than average, upon which advertising has no effect? thank god for people like you that can tell us what to do.

the article doesn't give the cost of the iPad, but educational institutions don't pay retail. that, and the $1B included upgrades to networking infrastructure to support the devices, which would have been required no matter what.

while certainly shiny, iPads are pretty capable devices that can run applications for just about anything. they are easier to manage and lock down than a PC. they are tech-illiterate friendly. they aren't a terrible choice for this. what's the alternative? chromebooks? they don't really work offline which was probably a requirement. chinese cheapo garbage tablets?

nothing is shown to be possible until we do it, yet we do still manage to do things. huh.

https://code.google.com/p/chro...

looks like there's little difference two me. you are only the product if you sign in to google, which is true of whatever browser you choose.

isn't that what i said? they can only track you if you are signed in using their services.

weather system aren't digital either yet we can simulate them on a computer. if we can understand the brain (that's the hard part) then we can model it in code ... probably running orders of magnitude faster / more memory / in parallel.

the question is what sort of consciousness would arise from such a thing? i can't even speculate.

that's because the default is always google.

google doesn't have a competing product either. google could not give a rats ass how you arrive at their search engine, whether it's from chrome or firefox or IE. they make 0 from chrome other than the traffic it drives to their services. they are just as as happy to have that traffic driven from firefox.

yahoo is a terrible fit. they are a company that *still* backdoor installs crap like search toolbars if the OS will allow it. mozilla cashed a huge check at the expense of having their reasonably good name associated with yahoo. smart move by yahoo though. they have to do something to try and get back in the game. for me, the last time i tried yahoo it was so incredibly terrible i thought it was 2003 again.

points to the stable channel release notes, last update October 7 and says nothing about 64 bit.